Talk:Community Wishlist/W323

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Thank you, and a question

@Sette-quattro, thank you for your submission. In your wish you cited Mapstrack on OSM or like this Mapbox style. Did you mean that we should use these existing styles specifically? Or we should create new ones using Mapbox/Mapstrack as examples? –– STei (WMF) (talk) 12:53, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

I put them as examples, we can create a new one with Mapbox/Mapstrack.

My whish was for a style more suitable to illustrate geographical/natural features, so with contour lines, hill shading, rivers, forests and lakes more highlighted than cities/roads/boundaries Sette-quattro (talk) 09:38, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Also see phab:T360197, not sure if it could use this or if it's related but it seems like it:

Filters for which types of items are shown or hidden on the Nearby places map […]
[For example] Greenspaces like forests, rivers and parks (if one wants to view only information about these) […]
Maybe at a later point this could better integrate with WikiVoyage as well as with articles about certain subjects (for example a Wikipedia article about greenspaces in a region could embed the filtered Places map showing only these particular items) – this could probably be done with the Kartographer extension

Prototyperspective (talk) 12:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@Sette-quattro: Should this also be available in the Wikipedia app(s)? That's where I would use it as I mostly use maps when going around places. The Wikipedia app has the Nearby Places map that shows you Wikipedia articles on the map. The same map could have these extra layers. I'd add the 2 app tags if this is (also) about the app(s). Prototyperspective (talk) 11:16, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Prototyperspective! the primary use that I had in mind is for infoboxes of natural venues. I don't know much about wikipedia apps, but I imagine it could be useful Sette-quattro (talk) 09:56, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Location map templates usually have two styles, and the relief map one(s) are not too bad. So any style that looks at least like that would be a good improvement to Kartographer. The default style should be configurable per article (or template): when showing a national park, you want to see rivers and mountains, when showing populated places you're probably more interested in buildings, neighboorhods and roads. I hope it won't take forever to get this done. My support! pon_or (talk) 13:44, 7 November 2024 (UTC)